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Keyboard shortcuts save time and help you get exactly where you want to be in seconds. Here are some useful important keyboard shortcuts you can use while searching the Web with the Mozilla Firefox, Google’s Chrome and Internet Explorer browsers.

Users Know exactly what you are searching for on Google search? It is now a bit easier quick way to find it.

Google search page is constantly doing things to automatically adjust your questions and corrections – that will change in common synonyms, spelling, omitting certain terms which may not be needed, and so on. Sometimes show above the search results Did you mean “your search term” Most of the time these settings are useful, but can sometimes get in the way. For some time you can find what you came in with some advanced search operators, and now there is a simplified way to do it.

15th November 2011, Google has announcing an easier way to do this: a “Verbatim” option in their search tools on the left sidebar. Who does what you expect: run a query with the Verbatim, and get the results of what was in the search box.

speculation about an “Over-optimization penalty”, Google finally rolled out the “Webspam Update”. The main purpose of the Penguin update is to put a deep freeze on web spam in Google’s search results. By extension, a big piece of that web spam appears to be links from low-quality networks.

Bing search engine was the big gainer in year-over-year search activity, picking up 29% more searches in year 2010 than it did in 2009. But Google, despite already having a high lead in the market, also picked up 13% more searches last year 2010. Those numbers, and many others, are part of comScore’s “2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review” report, which was just announced today.

The comScore report also nearly mirrors other recent studies related to the most popular search keywords in the US in 2010, with Facebook being the runaway leader as the most-used search terms of the year. Ebay and Netflix were the top two keywords in terms of generating paid search clicks.